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The Philadelphia Story

Movie · 1940 · 108 min

Sparkling, fast-talking drawing-room comedy where wit and charm carry every scene and the mood stays buoyant and forgiving.

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1940 film by George Cukor
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Year
1940
Runtime
108 min
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • class
  • identity
  • family
  • deception
Places
  • single country house
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

Details

Genres
comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy
Directed by
George Cukor
Written by
Donald Ogden Stewart, Waldo Salt, Philip Barry
Starring
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, King Baggot, Roland Young, Hillary Brooke, Virginia Weidler
Music
Franz Waxman
Cinematography
Joseph Ruttenberg
Runtime
108 min
Country
United States
Languages
English

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